35 Sonnets
Appearance
Author | Fernando Pessoa |
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Language | English |
Genre | Poetry |
Published | 1918 (Monteiro & Co.) |
Publication place | Portugal |
Media type | Print (chapbook) |
Pages | 20 pp |
OCLC | 18125186[1] |
Text | 35 Sonnets at Wikisource |
35 Sonnets is poetry book by Fernando Pessoa published in 1918.
Publication
One of two book self-published by Pessoa in 1918, the author sent copies to several British literary journals.[2] It has a height of 20 centimetres (7.9 in).[1]
Reception
35 Sonnets received fairly positive reviews from various British journals.[2] A Glasgow Herald review was positive, but noted that the sonnets bore a "crabbedness of speech," likely due to an "imitation of a Shakespearean trick."[3] However, a reviewer from the Times Literary Supplement said of 35 Sonnets that the authors "command of English is less remarkable than his knowledge of Elizabethan English."[4]
References
Sources
- Zenith, Richard (2006). A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems. Penguin. p. 436. ISBN 9780143039556.